Category Archives: Canada
Winnipeg man's GoFundMe page hopes to raise money to shed excess skin
WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg man has set up a GoFundMe page with his sights set on raising $20,000 to help him get surgery to remove the excess skin left after he lost more than 200 pounds in less than two y...
Sep 09, 2016
Labour ministers discuss harmonizing provincial work safety standards
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - Governments across the country are aiming to harmonize occupational health and safety requirements to make it easier for businesses who do work in different provinces and te...
Sep 09, 2016

Air travellers on Samsung phone honour system after fires
If you travel with a Samsung Note 7, you’re likely on the honour system when deciding whether to use or charge the device during a flight. The Canadian and U.S. governments both issued advisorie...
Sep 09, 2016
RCMP officer in B.C. to face child-luring charges after vigilante sting
SURREY, B.C. - Charges are pending against a police officer in British Columbia caught up in a sting by a vigilante group dedicated to exposing and publicly shaming alleged child sexual predators...
Sep 09, 2016
Police seize massive cache of weapons at Edmonton home after finding bomb
EDMONTON - Police in Edmonton found a whole lot of weapons at a home in which they found an explosive device. Earlier this week, residents in a southeast Edmonton neighbourhood were told to leave...
Sep 09, 2016
Kenney dismisses Leitch position on screening immigrants for 'anti-Canadian values'
CALGARY - Federal Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch hasn’t thought through her controversial position on screening immigrants for “anti-Canadian values,” form...
Sep 09, 2016
Judge won't reinstate CRTC commissioner pending his legal fight over firing
TORONTO - A former commissioner of Canada’s broadcast regulator has lost his bid for reinstatement pending a court fight over his firing. In a decision Friday, Federal Court Judge Anne Mactavish...
Sep 09, 2016
B.C. Mountie charged after pedestrian accident claimed five-year-old boy
VICTORIA - An RCMP officer has been charged with driving without due care and attention a year after a five-year-old boy was killed at a Penticton, B.C., intersection. The B.C. Criminal Justice...
Sep 09, 2016
Oppositional disorder, China, cable TV: 3 things in federal politics this week
OTTAWA - It was a week of semantic satiation in Ottawa, with politicos parsing “anti-Canadian values” so many times that the phrase seemed to become almost meaningless. Conservative l...
Sep 09, 2016
Trans-Pacific Partnership would give $4.3B boost to economy, federal study says
OTTAWA - A new federal government study projects that Canada would generate more than $4 billion in long-term GDP gains if it joins the Trans-Pacific Partnership - but stands to ta...
Sep 09, 2016